Didn’t Sam Altman say that ads would be a last resort?
this post was submitted on 09 Feb 2026
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This simply means they’ve finally run out of money. If that doesn’t help, Apple or Microsoft will just end up buying OpenAI for pennies.
I suppose that means they've reached it.
Crazy, I thought they'd wait until the IPO before they start going to the "bleed the users like penned cattle" phase of enshittification. They must need money sooner than they thought.
That's how close we are before the bubble bursts. Plus they can never go public because they'd have to publish their numbers. A minus followed by several commas will definitely burst that bubble.
One can only hope, I can't wait to see it all burn. All those shitty AI companies can go to hell as far as I'm concerned, they add no value to my life whatsoever.
they do. desperately. it's been stated for awhile now.
Let the enshittification begin!
That's the neat part — AI comes pre-enshittified!
Wow I did not expect to see actual ads. The answers could just be commercially manipulative instead.
They're explicitly differentiating from modifying the search results as a reason why the ads are transparent. I figure in one year they'll start to insert ads into the answer proper with a disclaimer, and then next fully integrate it.
This is what I'm hoping for. That way, when the dumbest person we know copies content from ChatGPT, we'll see the ads too and know they're a dumbass!
Why not both?
OpenAI: "Hire that Lemmy user now!"
Nah, just scrape his comment history and dump it into the machine.
That would just not bring in enough. Remember that this is their last resort to prevent collapse.